Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 68B-27.014 - Statewide Bag Limits on Oyster Harvesting
(1) Commercial Bag Limit.
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), in
all state waters open to oyster harvesting, no person shall harvest or take for
commercial purposes more than twenty (20) bags of oysters per person or per
vessel, whichever is less, per day.
(b) Except as provided in paragraph
68B-27.017(1)(a),
F.A.C., beginning October 1 each year and continuing through June 30 of the
following year, in Apalachicola Bay, each person who harvests or takes oysters
for commercial purposes shall be subject to a bag limit of twenty (20) bags of
oysters per day. On any vessel in the bay during this period, a vessel limit
equal to twenty (20) bags of oysters times the number of persons aboard the
vessel harvesting or taking oysters for commercial purposes shall apply and
possession of more than this number of bags of oysters aboard such a vessel in
the bay is prohibited. Paragraph (a) shall apply in Apalachicola Bay to all
commercial harvesters during the rest of the year.
(2) Recreational Bag Limit. In all state
waters open to oyster harvesting, no person may harvest for recreational
purposes or possess more than two (2) bags of oysters per person or per vessel,
whichever is less, per day.
(3) No
person shall harvest for recreational purposes and harvest for commercial
purposes within any one day.
(4)
When vessels are connected in any way, for example by towing, no person shall
claim more than one bag limit for all vessels so connected.
(5) Possession of oysters in excess of the
applicable bag limit aboard a vessel harvesting oysters in or on the waters
above any public oyster bed is prohibited.
(6) The bag and vessel limits established in
this rule do not apply to the authorized harvest of oysters from submerged
lands which have been leased for shellfish culture by the State of
Florida.
Notes
Rulemaking Authority Art. IV, Sec. 9, Fla. Const. Law Implemented Art. IV, Sec. 9, Fla. Const.
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